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Don't you love the - very British - 'carriages for 11pm'? Meaning, get the hell out of my house by then.
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« Reply #4606 on: 09:24:45, 11-09-2008 » |
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I like the honesty. In my country guests stay as long as they like.
It is all right if they are relations and you can tell them that you are tired, but if not you must struggle on.
As to Richard's problem with arriving late my arrival depends totally on several factors:
1. Am I alone or we are going together with tp.
2. I am going alone, but am I nervous and afraid or I am all right
If I am with tp we always arrive at a time when the hostess is still taking shower. But if I am going with him I am trying to take my time getting ready. However, I am still early because he thinks that we are late.
If I am going by myself then I can be late because I left it to the last minut to get ready. Or I can be on time because he made sure I did not forget to get ready and go.
Once we arrive I want to stay as long as possible. Once I start talking I forget what time it is and usually happy that I am at the party.
We usually leave with everybody else, I would not leave a minute earlier.
At home when we compare notes it sounds like we were at two different parties. Whatever I saw or heard he did not hear. Whatever I noticed he did not. At the end somehow he understood more about people than I did and he usually is right (though I can be right too).
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« Reply #4607 on: 09:26:57, 11-09-2008 » |
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we always arrive at a time when the hostess is still taking shower.
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Once we arrive I want to stay as long as possible. Once I start talking I forget what time it is
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« Reply #4608 on: 09:39:49, 11-09-2008 » |
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tp is good with all kind of music too. One can run things by him and he will tell his opinion (or you just can see his reaction).
He wanted to be an opera singer. He had very good tenor with good tembre, but now he dosn't sing at all. I think it has been at least ten or more years since he stopped singing. He used to be a soloist in children choir singing solo alto part. He considered to go into musical career, but was persuated otherwise.
He does't know musical notation, that is a big minus.
He can hear much more on the first hearing of difficult (more challenging) music than I can and he explains it to me.
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« Reply #4609 on: 12:55:02, 11-09-2008 » |
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I'm taking the opportunity to take a duster and cloth to work today so I can clean my office before installing myself properly therein. There's some unidentified gunk on the desk that bothers me and rather a lot of crumbs as well. Just need to have enough sockets into which I can plug all my paraphernalia (that doesn't look right: phern phern phern) and then I'll be laughing. Or at least smirking sarcastically.
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« Reply #4610 on: 13:18:19, 11-09-2008 » |
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It is easy to pick up crumbs with a vacuum cleaner. Then you can wipe the rest.
That is ofcourse if you don't have papers on your desk.
I have pictures on my desk.
Also I was told so many interesting things yesterday on the way to Athenry. I have a specialist not only on history, but on James Joyce writing. I am strating a book on Finnigan wake and on Ulyses.
If I don't write it down in front of him I will forget it.
We agreed that every time I come to them for a visit he will tell me a small story and I will write it down.
I will write you a story about Athenry from my yesterday trip soon.
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« Reply #4612 on: 13:23:46, 11-09-2008 » |
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...If I am with tp we always arrive at a time when the hostess is still taking shower...
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« Reply #4613 on: 13:31:59, 11-09-2008 » |
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Not in this case it is not.
On my own I would come respectfully full 20 mins late.
Now when they invite us together they tell me: We want you to leave the house at (such and such hour).
That is what I call humiliating experience. It is absolutely awful in my book, Mr Dr Baz.
I am still recuperating from my first experience after we just arrived in Boston.
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« Reply #4614 on: 13:32:57, 11-09-2008 » |
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Now when they invite us together they tell me: We want you to leave the house at (such and such hour).
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« Reply #4615 on: 13:35:24, 11-09-2008 » |
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When we are waiting for guests we are ready at least 2 hours in advance. I can not do anything if people are here already.
I am getting better at it, don't care as much as I used to.
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« Reply #4616 on: 13:53:26, 11-09-2008 » |
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How do other people cope if they have to give a party?
Are people organized and know what they are going to do?
Are you ready before your guests arrive?
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« Reply #4617 on: 14:17:50, 11-09-2008 » |
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I don't want to disrupt the meet-up thread with this post, so i'm putting it here. Sadly I don't think I'll be making it. Unexpected situations have arisen that cannot be called comfortable, and I feel compelled to show my face at the proms queue, for reasons I can't go into. enjoy it, all.
Regarding parties, all that faffing around, and for what?
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« Reply #4618 on: 14:27:18, 11-09-2008 » |
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eru, I'm really sorry to hear you can't make the Meet tonight  Perhaps next time? Hope you manage to resolve 'the situations' and enjoy the Prom tonight. |
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« Reply #4619 on: 14:41:25, 11-09-2008 » |
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How do other people cope if they have to give a party?
Are people organized and know what they are going to do?
Are you ready before your guests arrive?
Very simply. I don't give parties. If I did (and I used to), I would be very organised, and I would definitely be ready, but I would worry about it. |
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